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Thanks. Appreciate your support, and very glad it brings you value.

I'd rather not involve Microsoft but I recognize there are other options. It is additional work/complexity I'll probably have to take on.

To clarify the math. Netlify bills $50 for each 100GB over the Pro plan limit of 1TB. Which is the barrel I'm looking down just this month before others get the same idea. So yes, …

Please believe me that it is not a step I want to take.

I created and maintain ProtonDB, a popular Linux gaming resource. I don't do ads, just pay the bills from some Patreon donations. It's a statically generated React site I deploy on…

ProtonDB started with a lunchtime reddit post and a public Google Sheets link I seeded with three of my own tests. Came back from work with a thousand rows in it. In a few weeks I …

Not who you responded to, but I thought you described your case elegantly neutral to the God question. I suspected you were coming from that perspective, but your argument stood on…

Tried your beta out and enjoyed it for a while but then got hit with the auth wall after ~10 messages. Kind of irrational but I felt insulted that even after I did so my conversati…

I'd be curious to hear of your experience. Let me know how to reach you?

Interesting I had no idea. This was also the first crewed mission following the Apollo 1 failure. There's some explanation of what they disagreed on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Fascinating he would choose to retire at 39, in a position of what sounds of great influence in the space program. Anyone know the context around this? Was it mandated?

That great innovation is at the root of the market's disregard for negative externalities such as climate change. I'm not in support of jailing shareholders, but say a tax on the d…

Aside from the well written article itself, it's remarkable the thought and time put into the commentary that follows. This reminds me how much the quality of commentary has reduce…

A powerful engagement and influence was left by MySpace, but it's not put up in protective glass for ticketed visitors to take snapshots of. I appreciate the nuance of its impact o…

You're proposing then that Google is in a disappointment loop. I think that's much more true for the technologically versed than the broader public. If they shut down Gmail/Maps/Yo…

Irony bells are ringing with the New Yorker magazine chasing its own TikTok dreams, autoplaying an utterly unrelated video halfway down the article.

That's an odd comparison. Unlike Stadia, if the Pixel phone division shuts down you still have a working phone. Forums will be forums and the trolls get the spotlight. Pixel phones…

Absolutely agree. XBox Cloud gaming took the "Netflix for games" strategy and with inferior quality was able to decently establish itself. How to fund the development of a risky bu…

But standards can be low or high. Can one firmly stand on unfirm ground?

Neither the post you respond to nor anyone I've spoken with make claim that assault rifles represent a significant portion of gun deaths. That politicians gravitate to 'banning ass…

Why is there a belief that the provider of content should also be the source of quality recommendations? I also see this disappointment with for example Steam and gaming. Or Spotif…

This is really good thank you. Worthy of a follow-up submission on HN of its own since we're pretty deep into comments here. Note that this study is specifically focused on North C…

Sorry i misstated, it was the article at the second link from post i responded to. first image of that post, under where it says 'Get Chrome - Download Chrome Today' there is a gre…

I wonder if this extensive testing could be funded by a tax on leaded fuel. Seems like this would benefit everyone.

In the second link above, a Bing ad is presented to download Chrome while describing a domain of "www.google.com" but when clicked takes the user to googleonline2018.com ... maybe …